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Attention fellow tailgaters.  As of 2007 Rowan is officially a dry tailgate for the first time since... since... well JT's never seen it.  Now JT never drinks on a Friday night game when he's doing 120 miles one way, but he like a couple of cold ones after a Saturday day game with other fans.  And if he's not "working" or driving, he'll have more than a couple.

Aparently it has nothing to do with athletics and tailgating.  Too many fights and police calls and other trouble in the Spring and Summer.  So as usual the admistration overreacts.  Totally going to kill tailgating.  Everyone was late to the game.  Student got a buzz on at their apartments and TCNJ didn't bother showing up until after game time.

JT thinks that since Rowan has become a top academic institution that these amateurs don't know how to party.  When JT went Glassboro State came as advertised "A party school".  We were professionals.  We knew how to party.  Fights were ended quickly.  Known mean drunks were plied with weed to keep em mellow. 

Take a page from TCNJ... now there are some "smart" drunks tailgating there.

JT will see if the ban is lifted on Saturday afternoon, but the rent-a-cops say its for All Athletic Events.  Man Friday night was like they were looking for terrorists.  Annoucements handed out.  Campus police all over the place, town police all over the place.  Big dood campus cop with no neck rolled up on JT and started yelling, "No alcohol.  Can't you read?"

JT:  "Its a Sprite... Kojak."

JT proposes to the LLPP that Rowan University hence forth be know here as.... Rowan Baptist University.

Or St. John Fisher College


... and +k for the Kojak line.

[AUPepBand]

But at least Catholics drink.  Tailgating allowed, if not encouraged.

It's Pep's observation that the "beer tent" is usually a big money-maker at Catholic parish festivals. Pep was always somewhat puzzled by that, having grown up in a (never officially voted but nevertheless) dry Seventh Day Baptist town.

[JT]

Gotta love it, Clemens knocked out in the 3rd inning...priceless.  Seems like the Yanks really got a big return on all that investment.

Things are going well for the Yanks tonght, however Torre confused manning up with doing what it takes to win on Friday night.  JT's family (Mom & Dad) are from Western PA... very familiar with gnats... affected many a golf outing in the Fall.

If JT were Torre he'd have told Froeming that we need a delay.  If Froeming didn't agree, JT would have said that he was taking his team and his 4 WS titles and 13 straight post season appearances and sitting on the bench until the fly problem was over.  If Froeming wanted to forfeit on national TV, he could go right ahead.

Some people don't know how to pull the power card when needed, and I like Torre.

[JT]

Attention fellow tailgaters.  As of 2007 Rowan is officially a dry tailgate for the first time since... since... well JT's never seen it.  Now JT never drinks on a Friday night game when he's doing 120 miles one way, but he like a couple of cold ones after a Saturday day game with other fans.  And if he's not "working" or driving, he'll have more than a couple.

Aparently it has nothing to do with athletics and tailgating.  Too many fights and police calls and other trouble in the Spring and Summer.  So as usual the admistration overreacts.  Totally going to kill tailgating.  Everyone was late to the game.  Student got a buzz on at their apartments and TCNJ didn't bother showing up until after game time.

JT thinks that since Rowan has become a top academic institution that these amateurs don't know how to party.  When JT went Glassboro State came as advertised "A party school".  We were professionals.  We knew how to party.  Fights were ended quickly.  Known mean drunks were plied with weed to keep em mellow. 

Take a page from TCNJ... now there are some "smart" drunks tailgating there.

JT will see if the ban is lifted on Saturday afternoon, but the rent-a-cops say its for All Athletic Events.  Man Friday night was like they were looking for terrorists.  Annoucements handed out.  Campus police all over the place, town police all over the place.  Big dood campus cop with no neck rolled up on JT and started yelling, "No alcohol.  Can't you read?"

JT:  "Its a Sprite... Kojak."

JT proposes to the LLPP that Rowan University hence forth be know here as.... Rowan Baptist University.

JT- +1K for the Kojak line.
What the heck is Rowan thinking banning tailgating? If RPI did that, Reg would literally set up shop right on Burdett ave (the road that runs right next to the parking lot) and enjoy his festivities there.  If the real popo runs up on Reg he is brown baggin it, no problem sir, enjoy your day.

That seriously sucks.  

U89- did they ban tailgating at Union, too?  Make sure you find out before shooes '07

I'm convinced that the people that made this decision never go to games.  I'm not endorcing foolish behavior, but there were some big time alums getting pissed for the narc behavior on a couple of brews.

[mattvsmith]

SJF and Alfred are looking good on the Top 25.  Both teams have very easy games next week.  Doubt a win will help them much, but a loss to Norwich or Utica, respectively, would hurt them big time.

As for RPI, they are almost in the Top 25, but a bye next week followed by Merchant Marine,  The Rev wonder when they will break the seal.  USMMA ain't exactly a feather in the cap.  So as with SJF and Alfred, a win likely won't have much of an effect, but a loss would be a kick in the pants.

P.S.  One would think that with a bunch of technogeeks RPI would have a killer website.  It sucks.  Click on Football, and there's women's soccer in the Top Stories.  The schedule is buried in a menu on the right side of the screen that you have to scroll down to see.  Don't engineers ever do usability tests?  Sheesh!

[mattvsmith]

HOLY CRAP!!!

The Rev just realized that he doesn't have to go to work tomorrow because it is Columbus Day!

The Rev also submitted his thesis for format review and it passed the muster.

The Rev is aiming for a defense date of Oct 22.  You are all invited.  There will be a tailgate party in the Simultor Building parking lot beginning at 11 am. Defense at 1 pm.  Post-defense tailgate party at 2 pm.

The Rev will not be doing a "prevent defense".

Anyone interested in my paper can go here: http://www.public.asu.edu/~mvsmith/IRRinAviation.pdf

It is boring, but it is the first study of its kind on aviation.  Who knew The Rev could do ground-breaking work?  The Rev didn't.

[Tonyfromtroy]

SJF and Alfred are looking good on the Top 25.  Both teams have very easy games next week.  Doubt a win will help them much, but a loss to Norwich or Utica, respectively, would hurt them big time.

As for RPI, they are almost in the Top 25, but a bye next week followed by Merchant Marine,  The Rev wonder when they will break the seal.  USMMA ain't exactly a feather in the cap.  So as with SJF and Alfred, a win likely won't have much of an effect, but a loss would be a kick in the pants.

P.S.  One would think that with a bunch of technogeeks RPI would have a killer website.  It sucks.  Click on Football, and there's women's soccer in the Top Stories.  The schedule is buried in a menu on the right side of the screen that you have to scroll down to see.  Don't engineers ever do usability tests?  Sheesh!

Rev: So you think you found a gaping hole in a web site. You did'nt. You only found a spaghetti strainer hole. Go to the school's main page and see if you are smart enough to figure out how to get to the athletic page. This is not an exercise in futlilty. It can actually be done. Further, this hole was pointed out to them back in August. While I know absolutely zero about constructing web sites, I cannot imagine this hole is very hard to fix.

[mattvsmith]

Rev: So you think you found a gaping hole in a web site. You did'nt. You only found a spaghetti strainer hole. Go to the school's main page and see if you are smart enough to figure out how to get to the athletic page. This is not an exercise in futlilty. It can actually be done. Further, this hole was pointed out to them back in August. While I know absolutely zero about constructing web sites, I cannot imagine this hole is very hard to fix.

Tony from Troy, do you think The Rev couldn't find the schedule?  Of course he could!  The Rev never said he couldn't find it, he merely said that the location of the schedule link is lousy--which it is.  Here is what The Rev did:

1. Started at the main page, www.rpi.edu and clicked on "student life."
2. On student life page, clicked on "Athletics" in the menu on the left, where menus like this belong.
3. On Athletics page, clicked on "Football" under Mens Varsity Sports.
4. Football page has the "schedule/results" tucked in the lower right side, and one has to scroll down to read it. 

Comments:
-Westerners scan pages starting from the from upper left, not the lower right.
-Webpages should not require a person to scroll to what one would consider vital information, it should be there right at the top.
-Furthermore, the indentation of that menu stinks.  The continuation of a line should never come back under the bullet (as this line does), but shold be indented to line up with the text above.  This is webdesign 101.
-The Rev thinks that there are too many menus on one page.
-The East Campus Athletic Village graphic and link should be on the main athletic page, since it is not solely for football.  That would free up some space. 
-Move that football menu up to the upper left.  Maybe get rid of the other menus.  If someone has clicked onto football, they probably don't want or need direct access to all other sports from that page.  Or, if they do, those menus should be secondary to the football menu--which by virtue of its poor placement is rendered tertiary at best.
-It's too bad because the website has great graphics, yet the lousy football menu position detracts from an otherwise handsome webpage.

Tony from Troy, this is not a personal indictment of you, so you need to calm down.

"Spaghetti Strainer hole."  I love it!

[Knightstalker]

The website was probably designed by the former student that Gro, LD and Reg gave the superb atomic gravity wedgie to. 

[Reno Hightower]

RE: LLPPFFSCFJ----KS:WOW what a close game, battle of the defenses on MNF to decide the victor!

[PBR...]

SJF and Alfred are looking good on the Top 25.  Both teams have very easy games next week.  Doubt a win will help them much, but a loss to Norwich or Utica, respectively, would hurt them big time.

As for RPI, they are almost in the Top 25, but a bye next week followed by Merchant Marine,  The Rev wonder when they will break the seal.  USMMA ain't exactly a feather in the cap.  So as with SJF and Alfred, a win likely won't have much of an effect, but a loss would be a kick in the pants.

P.S.  One would think that with a bunch of technogeeks RPI would have a killer website.  It sucks.  Click on Football, and there's women's soccer in the Top Stories.  The schedule is buried in a menu on the right side of the screen that you have to scroll down to see.  Don't engineers ever do usability tests?  Sheesh!

Rev: So you think you found a gaping hole in a web site. You did'nt. You only found a spaghetti strainer hole. Go to the school's main page and see if you are smart enough to figure out how to get to the athletic page. This is not an exercise in futlilty. It can actually be done. Further, this hole was pointed out to them back in August. While I know absolutely zero about constructing web sites, I cannot imagine this hole is very hard to fix.

dood...take it easy slick....post #4 from you and your flaming one of the long time regulars on the board. if your so smart go fix it yourself sounds like your angry you pointed this out to them and they havent fixed a bug u found...big deal sheesh get over yourself

['gro]

Re: RPI Athletics Website

To the first time or infrequent visitor Gro can see where there could be confusion. For each team the roster, schedule, etc link is on the right side, but due to some recent ads they have been pushed down (regular ads plus the live feeds for RPI games).  My guess is that the advertisers wanted their ads up top since they paid for them, and the school is pushing the live feed for football/hockey and didn't want it buried either. To fix this Gro would suggest they keep the live feed link as well as the new athletic village link only on the front page and not each team page. Some news bulletins are for multiple sports (usually a round up of player of the week awards) so thats why you see a soccer player on the football page.

Either way, this page doesn't even compare to the ones that covered the weekly antics of colvin circle inhabitants.  Nastiest Twin of the Week!!

[Regulator]

Reg agrees that the website is terrible.  It literally takes Reg about 2 minutes to find the start time to any RPI game.

Nastiest twin of the week.....classic! 

[PBR...]

pbr got crushed in llppffl....pbr knew he was in trouble when trent green pbr's qb for the day went down like a sack of potato(e)s doing his best regulator imitation....wtf? your a starting fb just get out of the way....

[Regulator]

pbr got crushed in llppffl....pbr knew he was in trouble when trent green pbr's qb for the day went down like a sack of potato(e)s doing his best regulator imitation....wtf? your a starting fb just get out of the way....

Yeah, what an IDIOT!  He was out all of last year too!

Warning- if you are an NFL QB, you need not throw yourself in front of a 350lb freight train.  The fans will forgive you for not "taking one for the team"